4. Your spirit
Different
from the body, mind or heart, your spirit is ready and willing to receive from
God. Your spirit as born again believers,
is alive and joined with Christ. Your
spirit is not in rebellion against God like your body, mind and heart can be.
Go with
me if you would to Mark 14:37-38. Jesus
is in the garden of Gethsemane praying.
And as soon as He is finished praying,
He speaks to Peter and says. Mark
14:37-38 starting at the middle of verse 37, “Simon,
sleepest thou? Couldest not thou watch
one hour?
V38 Watch
ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
The spirit truly is ready, but
the flesh is weak.”
1
Corinthians 6:17
“But he
that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.”
Once you have received the Holy spirit, your spirit is ready and willing to yield to
God. Think about it, if your spirit
rebelled against God like your flesh, your mind and your heart, there would be
no hope.
But there
is hope. God quickened your spirit with
His Spirit and that makes you able to yield to the Holy Spirit.
The man
or woman who has not allowed God entrance through salvation cannot receive the
wisdom of God, because their spirit has not been quickened, i. e., (made
alive).
The Word
teaches Corinthians 2:14
“14. But the natural man receiveth not the things
of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know
them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
Having a
theological discussion with the unsaved is unfruitful. No one is won by your theological
prowess. They are won, once they see
clearly that they are lost. Man is
far too proud to lose an argument, but no one wants to lose their soul.
The
unsaved man or woman is trying to live out their existence and make sense of it
all, without revelation from God. That’s
why it is so important for you, to put on the mind of Christ and to reveal the
image of the living God in your life and your actions.
No one
just believes. God must first be seen in a man by his example before that
man can reveal God by words.
Your
flesh, your mind and the heart war against your yielding to the Spirit of
God. But the Spirit of God is able to
win this war, and will win this war, as you yield.
Just as
God was revealed to you by another, as you yield, God will be revealed to another
by you." The whole person yields to God a little at a time until they realize that yielding a little is not yielding at all.
Excerpt from God Thinking LXVI - The Whole Person Yields by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014
Excerpt from God Thinking LXVI - The Whole Person Yields by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014
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